Comparative 16S rRNA Analysis of Lake Bacterioplankton Reveals Globally Distributed Phylogenetic Clusters Including an Abundant Group of Actinobacteria

The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.

1987 • 59,130 citations

Phylogenetic identification and in situ detection of individual microbial cells without cultivation

1995 • 8,157 citations

Brock Biology of Microorganisms

1996 • 5,837 citations

A Molecular View of Microbial Diversity and the Biosphere

1997 • 2,747 citations

Supercoil Sequencing: A Fast and Simple Method for Sequencing Plasmid DNA

1985 • 2,505 citations

Impact of Culture-Independent Studies on the Emerging Phylogenetic View of Bacterial Diversity

1998 • 2,361 citations

Bacterial evolution

1987 • 2,303 citations

Fluorescent-oligonucleotide probing of whole cells for determinative, phylogenetic, and environmental studies in microbiology

1990 • 2,234 citations

Gene organization and primary structure of a ribosomal RNA operon from Escherichia coli

1981 • 1,732 citations

Genetic diversity in Sargasso Sea bacterioplankton

1990 • 1,666 citations

Optimizing fluorescent in situ hybridization with rRNA‐targeted oligonucleotide probes for flow cytometric identification of microorganisms

1993 • 1,180 citations

fastDNAml: a tool for construction of phylogenetic trees of DNA sequences using maximum likelihood

1994 • 1,146 citations

Microbial Ecology and Evolution: A Ribosomal RNA Approach

1986 • 1,003 citations

Bacterioplankton Compositions of Lakes and Oceans: a First Comparison Based on Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization

1999 • 810 citations

Microbial Diversity in a Hydrocarbon- and Chlorinated-Solvent-Contaminated Aquifer Undergoing Intrinsic Bioremediation

1998 • 778 citations

Molecular microbial diversity in soils from eastern Amazonia: evidence for unusual microorganisms and microbial population shifts associated with deforestation

1997 • 730 citations

Phylogenetic analysis and in situ identification of bacteria in activated sludge

1997 • 720 citations

Phylogenetic Analysis of Particle-Attached and Free-Living Bacterial Communities in the Columbia River, Its Estuary, and the Adjacent Coastal Ocean

1999 • 683 citations

The RDP (Ribosomal Database Project) continues

2000 • 650 citations

Molecular microbial diversity of an agricultural soil in Wisconsin

1996 • 593 citations

In situ probing of Gram-positive bacteria with high DNA G + C content using 23S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotides

1994 • 539 citations

The Ribosome : structure, function, and evolution

1990 • 508 citations

Bacterial community structures of phosphate-removing and non-phosphate-removing activated sludges from sequencing batch reactors

1995 • 463 citations

Genetic comparisons reveal the same unknown bacterial lineages in Atlantic and Pacific bacterioplankton communities

1995 • 395 citations

Flow Cytometric Analysis of the In Situ Accessibility of Escherichia coli 16S rRNA for Fluorescently Labeled Oligonucleotide Probes

1998 • 392 citations

Ribosome analysis reveals prominent activity of an uncultured member of the class Actinobacteria in grassland soils

1997 • 389 citations

An In Situ Hybridization Protocol for Detection and Identification of Planktonic Bacteria

1996 • 315 citations

Morphological and Compositional Changes in a Planktonic Bacterial Community in Response to Enhanced Protozoan Grazing

1999 • 312 citations

Seasonal Community and Population Dynamics of Pelagic Bacteria and Archaea in a High Mountain Lake

1998 • 305 citations

Unlabeled Helper Oligonucleotides Increase the In Situ Accessibility to 16S rRNA of Fluorescently Labeled Oligonucleotide Probes

2000 • 297 citations

Extraction from Natural Planktonic Microorganisms of DNA Suitable for Molecular Biological Studies

1988 • 289 citations

Bacterial diversity in a soil sample from a subtropical Australian environment as determined by 16S rDNA analysis.

1993 • 282 citations

Specific Ribosomal DNA Sequences from Diverse Environmental Settings Correlate with Experimental Contaminants

1998 • 267 citations

Microbial flora in the deepest sea mud of the Mariana Trench

2006 • 265 citations

Bacterial diversity in Adirondack mountain lakes as revealed by 16S rRNA gene sequences

1997 • 200 citations

Fluorescently labelled, rRNA‐targeted oligonucleotide probes in the study of microbial ecology

1995 • 195 citations

Screening for Genetic Diversity of Isolates of Anaerobic Fe(II)-oxidizing Bacteria Using DGGE and Whole-cell Hybridization

1997 • 190 citations

Nearly Identical 16S rRNA Sequences Recovered from Lakes in North America and Europe Indicate the Existence of Clades of Globally Distributed Freshwater Bacteria

1998 • 186 citations

Flow sorting of microorganisms for molecular analysis

1997 • 178 citations

Contrasts between marine and freshwater bacterial community composition: Analyses of communities in Lake George and six other Adirondack lakes

1998 • 172 citations

Isolation of new bacterial species from drinking water biofilms and proof of their in situ dominance with highly specific 16S rRNA probes

1997 • 166 citations

Methane oxidation potential and preliminary analysis of methanotrophs in blanket bog peat using molecular ecology techniques

1996 • 148 citations

16S rRNA gene diversity of attached and unattached bacteria in boreholes along the access tunnel to the Äspö hard rock laboratory, Sweden

1996 • 146 citations

Ice break‐up on southern Lake Baikal and its relationship to local and regional air temperatures in Siberia and to the North Atlantic Oscillation

1999 • 131 citations

Bacterial Diversity and Systematics

1994 • 121 citations

A molecular approach to search for diversity among bacteria in the environment

1996 • 118 citations

Highly active microbial communities in the ice and snow cover of high mountain lakes

1995 • 118 citations

Modern methods in subsurface microbiology: in situ identification of microorganisms with nucleic acid probes

1997 • 114 citations

Bacterial diversity in an arctic lake: a freshwater SAR11 cluster

1996 • 110 citations

Molecular characterization of nocardioform actinomycetes in activated sludge by 16S rRNA analysis

1995 • 101 citations

Biodiversity of gas vacuolate bacteria from Antarctic sea ice and water

1995 • 95 citations

Bacterial diversity of a Carolina bay as determined by 16S rRNA gene analysis: confirmation of novel taxa

1997 • 90 citations

Investigation of the potential for microbial contamination of deep granitic aquifers during drilling using 16S rRNA gene sequencing and culturing methods

1997 • 84 citations

Characterization of attached bacterial populations in deep granitic groundwater from the Stripa research mine by 16S rRNA gene sequencing and scanning electron microscopy

1994 • 78 citations

Diversity and distribution of subterranean bacteria in groundwater at Oklo in Gabon, Africa, as determined by 16S rRNA gene sequencing

1996 • 73 citations

16S rRNA Analysis of Isolates Obtained from Gram-Negative, Filamentous Bacteria Micromanipulated from Activated Sludge

1996 • 60 citations

In situ classification and image cytometry of pelagic bacteria from a high mountain lake (gossenkollesee, austria)

1997 • 59 citations

Phylogeny of Actinobacteria Small Subunit (SSU) rRNA Gene Clones Recovered From Marine Bacterioplankton

1999 • 57 citations

Microbial Food Webs in an Artificially Divided Acidic Bog Lake

1998 • 48 citations

Phylogeny and Identification In Situ of Nevskia ramosa

1998 • 46 citations

Cat Scratch Disease: the Rare Role of Afipia felis

1998 • 43 citations

Diversity and distribution of subterranean bacteria in groundwater at Oklo in Gabon, Africa, as determined by 16S rRNA gene sequencing

1996 • 36 citations

Phylogeny and Diversity of Achromatium oxaliferum

1999 • 33 citations

The phylogenetic relationships of Caulobacter, Asticcacaulis and Brevundimonas species and their taxonomic implications

1999 • 33 citations

Typing in Situ with Probes

1994 • 21 citations

[Diversity of bacteria at various depths in the southern part of lake Baikal as detected by 16S rRNA sequencing].

1999 • 10 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations